“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
― Bob Dylan

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.”
― Bono, On the Move

“Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.”
― Jerry Seinfeld

“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
― Bob Dylan

“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
― Leonard Bernstein

“Songs are as sad as the listener.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
― Martin Luther

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.”
― Lady Gaga